[issue5085] distutils/test_sdist failure on windows

[Hirokazu Yamamoto]

New submission from Hirokazu Yamamoto <ocean-city at m2.ccsnet.ne.jp>:

test_sdist fails on windows with following message.

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/trunk.stable/x86%20XP-4%
20trunk/builds/1823/step-test/0

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ERROR: test_make_distribution (distutils.tests.test_sdist.sdistTestCase)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "E:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\trunk.bolen-
windows\build\lib\distutils\tests\test_sdist.py", line 119, in 
test_make_distribution
    spawn('tar --help')
  File "E:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\trunk.bolen-
windows\build\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 37, in spawn
    _spawn_nt(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
  File "E:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\trunk.bolen-
windows\build\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 70, in _spawn_nt
    cmd = _nt_quote_args(cmd)
  File "E:\cygwin\home\db3l\buildarea\trunk.bolen-
windows\build\lib\distutils\spawn.py", line 61, in _nt_quote_args
    args[i] = '"%s"' % args[i]
TypeError: 'str' object does not support item assignment

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This can be fixed if replace
  spawn('tar --help')
in Lib/distutils/tests/test_sdist.py with
  spawn(['tar', '--help'])
but, "tar --help" outputs very long message, it is not beautiful.

So I'll push attached patch. (This also checks gzip
which requres to run test)

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components: Tests
files: test_sdist_on_win32.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 80674
nosy: ocean-city
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils/test_sdist failure on windows
versions: Python 2.7
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12881/test_sdist_on_win32.patch

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